• WhoIsTheDrizzle@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    They aren’t going to strike from this event. Wait staff don’t have insurance or savings. Restaurant owners can’t afford to pay living wages with benefits; the margins are razor-thin as-is.

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      5 days ago

      Have you never heard of strike funds? If service workers can’t even pay rent they’re going to strike and walk out, breeding a crisis that will make tipping culture untenable.

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        5 days ago

        Europeans coming to America and not tipping isn’t going to breed a crisis, it’s going to breed animosity towards Europeans from the service workers.